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Hodges University's buy to handle enrollment spike
Hodges University, a private, non-profit college offering 24 undergraduate and seven graduate degree programs of study, announced it is expanding its Naples campus. The additional facilities are designed to help the university accommodate continued significant enrollment growth.
The university has entered into a lease-purchase agreement with Stock Development to buy a two-story building at 2647 Northbrooke Drive, immediately adjacent to the campus and main George Gaynor Building. Hodges will develop the first floor and occupy part of the second floor, with Stock maintaining its headquarters at the location.
The 25,000 square feet of space on the ground floor has been converted into classrooms for the Schools of Allied Health and Technology. There also is a lecture hall on the northern end of the building that will accommodate up to 300 people for special events.
The expansion doubles the size of the health and technology school and elevates the school's exposure in the community, says Terry P. McMahan, president of Hodges University, in a press release.
The new building will house the Allied Health and Technology faculty; medical assisting, chemistry and biology labs; computer classrooms; and the university's advancement department. Many of these functions are currently housed in a modular building that will be removed, giving the university further room to expand. The building also will be home to the France Pew Hayes Center for Lifelong Learning.
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